Anand Giridharadas

In an economy increasingly dominated by network effects, peer-to-peer transactions, self-regulation, and contract labor, the old frameworks are woefully irrelevant.

— Anand Giridharadas

For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.

— Anand Giridharadas

America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.

— Anand Giridharadas

More and more, the superrich don't live in one place but many, flitting between multiple homes on different continents, flying to them…

— Anand Giridharadas

IT put India on the map of the world and told Indians that they are somebody in the world. There is something…

— Anand Giridharadas

“that his tendency to hate could ultimately save his life. In fact, in”

— Anand Giridharadas

In Europe, more than in the United States, worldly people, faced with my Indian skin, reflexively laud my 'ancient,' 'beautiful' origins, which…

— Anand Giridharadas

Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.

— Anand Giridharadas

I worry when each of us is seduced by visions of the future that have no place for the other.

— Anand Giridharadas

Right after college, after growing up in the United States, I moved to India, broadly telling the story of how an old…

— Anand Giridharadas

Taking offense is, in fact, one of the few things that brings us together.

— Anand Giridharadas

To spend time in Silicon Valley in a year of political upheaval is, on one level, soothing. It is pleasant to hear…

— Anand Giridharadas

When it comes to granting unconditional birthright citizenship, the United States and Canada are alone in the industrialized world: North American exceptionalism,…

— Anand Giridharadas

I have a weakness for treating people's economic interests as their only interest, ignoring things like belonging and pride and the desire…

— Anand Giridharadas

Most of us are too enmeshed in communities to live our ideals. Outsiders have less to lose.

— Anand Giridharadas

In my reporting, I've found that real change escapes many change-makers because powerful illusions guide their projects.

— Anand Giridharadas

Democracy doesn't automatically safeguard women and minorities.

— Anand Giridharadas

When rooted, you observe how systems actually affect people.

— Anand Giridharadas

I am very happy to be an American. I realize what a valuable inheritance that is.

— Anand Giridharadas

As a teenager growing up in the suburbs of Washington, I ritually watched the Sunday-morning political talk shows with my family. We…

— Anand Giridharadas

Crowdsourcing aid is a cunning way to work around the do-nothing corridors of official Washington. But it also raises complicated questions about…

— Anand Giridharadas

I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.

— Anand Giridharadas

In America, where no one judged or supervised her, where my father was too busy eating her cooking to notice whether she…

— Anand Giridharadas

It requires some intelligent reframing to make people see commonalities that they don't otherwise see. To me, the Tea Party and the…

— Anand Giridharadas

The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle…

— Anand Giridharadas